Funding Bulletin
Funding Opportunities for Research, Instruction, Service, Creative Activities
Fellowships and International Programs
August 31, 2007
Program Information
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Limited submission programs have
sponsor restrictions on the number of
proposals that may be submitted by a
single institution and will require institutional screening to determine which
applications will be submitted. Dr. Jim
Guikema, Associate Vice Provost for
Research, is the internal coordinator for
limited submission programs. Please
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date listed in the Funding Bulletin or by
at least two months prior to the sponsor
deadline if you wish to submit to a limited submission program. Currently
posted Internal Deadlines: http://www.kstate.edu/research/funding/bulletins/
bul07/newlimits.htm
ARTS & HUMANITIES
33-1 James A. Fletcher Memorial
Award (MAC)
The Manhattan Arts Center announces the
second annual James A. Fletcher Memorial Award. The winner will receive a $500
prize given by Mavis Fletcher, and a featured display position in the 2007 Wrap It
Up Art Exhibit and Sale, November 3December 27, 2007. This competition is
open to 2D artists who are Kansas residents. Works must be 2D and may be executed in any medium. There is no theme
for the award, although artists may wish to
include an artist’s statement. All artwork
must be original art. A maximum of 2
pieces will be accepted from each artist.
EMAIL: director@manhattanarts.org
Deadline: 9/21/2007
33-2 Digital Humanities Start-Up
Grants (NEH)
The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and
Library Services invite applications to the
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program. Proposals should be for the planning
or initial stages of digital initiatives in any
area of the humanities. All applications
must propose an innovative approach,
method, tool, or idea that has not been
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used before in the humanities.
URL: http://www.neh.gov
Deadline: 10/16/2007; 4/2/2008
33-3 Humanities Fellowships (SHCU)
The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, which supports research
and encourages imaginative teaching in
the humanities, is accepting applications
from scholars and artists for its fellowship program. The focal theme for the
2008-2009 program in “Water, A Critical
Concept for the Humanities.” The program calls for scholarly reflection on
critical concepts of water from a broad
range of disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives. The society welcomes
applications from scholars and artists
who theorize, research, and perform
water as a critical concept for the humanities. Fellows should be working on topics related to the year’s theme. Their
approach to the humanities should be
broad enough to appeal to students and
scholars in several humanistic disciplines.
URL: http://www.arts.cornell.edu/
sochum/index.html
Deadline: 10/1/2007
EDUCATION
33-4 Digital Media and Learning
(MacArthur)
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation has announced a public competition that will award a total of $2 million in funding to emerging leaders,
communicators, and innovators shaping
the field of digital media and learning.
The competition is part of MacArthur’s
Digital Media and Learning initiative
that aims to help determine how digital
technologies are changing the way young
people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. Awards will be given in
two categories: 1) Innovation Awards
will support learning entrepreneurs and
builders of new digital environments for
informal learning; and 2) Knowledge
Networking Awards, will support communicators in connecting, mobilizing,
circulating, or translating new ideas
around digital media and learning.
URL: http://www.macfound.org
Deadline: 10/15/2007
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS & PHYSICAL SCIENCES
33-5 Foundations of Data and Visual
Analytics (FODAVA) (NSF)
Those involved with science, engineering, commerce, health, and national
security all increasingly face the challenge of synthesizing information and
deriving insight from massive, dynamic,
ambiguous and possibly conflicting digital data. The goal of collecting and examining these data is not to merely acquire
information, but to derive increased
understanding from it and to facilitate
effective decision-making. To capitalize
on the opportunities provided by these
data sets, a new, interdisciplinary field of
science is emerging called Data and
Visual Analytics, which is defined as the
science of analytical reasoning facilitated
by interactive visual interfaces. Data and
Visual Analytics requires interdisciplinary science, going beyond traditional
scientific and information visualization to
include statistics, mathematics, knowledge representation, management and discovery technologies, cognitive and
perceptual science, decision sciences, and
more. This solicitation is concerned only
with a subset of the overall problem,
namely the creation of the mathematical
and computational sciences foundations
required to transform data in ways that
permit visual-based understanding. Two
types of proposals are sought: FODAVALead proposals will be submitted by
research teams where all team members
belong to a single academic institution
willing to assume a leadership and coordination role. FODAVA-Lead proposals
will compete for a single award with the
successful institution expected to play a
key role in the development of FODAVA.
FODAVA-Partner proposals will be submissions for two-to-three year research
grants. Recipients will perform fundamental research but will also actively participate with the FODAVA-Lead Institute
in developing FODAVA as a field. An
individual may appear as PI, co-PI, Senior
Personnel, or Consultant on no more than
one FODAVA-Lead proposal and one
FODAVA-Partner proposal. NSF 07-583
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/
nsf07583/nsf07583.htm
Deadline: 11/20/2007
33-6 Astrophysics Strategic Mission
Concept Studies (NASA)
This new program element solicits concept studies for strategic space flight science missions that may be carried out in
the next decade or for which technology
development funding is sought in the next
decade. These concept studies will be
used for midterm and far-term forward
planning of a diverse astrophysics mission portfolio and for obtaining a simultaneous and uniform assessment of future
technology development needs for the
Astrophysics Division. Study results and
information related to the technical maturity of proposed mission components are
expected to be provided as input to the
panels convened by the National
Research Council for the upcoming 2010
Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal
Survey. NNH07ZDA001N
URL: http://nspires.nasaprs.com
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Deadline: Notices of Intent 9/20/2007;
Proposals 11/20/2007
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
33-7 Chemical Biological Medical
Systems (DOD)
The Joint Program Executive Office for
Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEOCBD) is organized into eight Joint Project
Management Offices, each responsible
for specific commodity areas. The Chemical Biological Medical Systems Joint
Project Management Office (CBMS
JPMO) consists of the Joint Vaccine
Acquisition Program (JVAP), Medical
Identification and Treatment Systems
(MITS), and Transformational Medical
Technologies Initiative (TMTI) Joint
Product Management Offices (JPMOs).
The medical CBRN countermeasures
developed by the CBMS JPMO directly
support the current, near-term, and farterm challenges by providing the capability to prevent, diagnose, and treat the
effects of chemical, radiological and biological warfare agents. The JVAP JPMO
provides biological protection by ensuring Warfighters immune systems are
primed to protect them from selected
threats. The MITS JPMO is responsible
for the advanced development of U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved/licensed/cleared products for
prophylaxis, treatment and diagnosis of
CBRN agent exposure. The TMTI JPMO
is developing and evaluating novel processes to accelerate the development and
approval of medical CBRN countermeasures by leveraging lifecycle bioinformatics, enabling technologies, and other
emerging technologies. CBMS-BAA-0701 (FBO 8/24/07)
URL: http://www.jpeocbd.osd.mil/
Deadline: 9/30/2007
33-8 Collaborative Research on
Tinnitus (R01) (NIH)
The purpose of this FOA is to promote
multidisciplinary collaborative research
teams to investigate tinnitus, and not
research that consists of only one discipline. Applications that do not demonstrate a collaborative approach across two
or more disciplines are not being solicited
under this FOA and will not be accepted.
RFA-DC-08-002 (NIHG 8/24/07)
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/
rfa-files/RFA-DC-08-002.html
Deadline: Letters of Intent 9/22/2007;
Applications 10/22/2007
33-9 Tourette Syndrome Research
and Training Grants (TSA)
Grant applications from Ph.D. & M.D.
researchers are invited for research in
Basic Neuroscience specifically relevant
to TS; Clinical Studies in the Etiology,
Pathophysiology and Treatment of
Tourette Syndrome; and one year training
post-doctoral fellowships. Areas of specific interest are: animal models, basal
ganglia physiology, behavioral neuroscience, clinical trials, neurochemistry,
neuroimaging, and neuropathology. For
preliminary screening, a Letter of Intent
briefly describing the scientific basis and
relevance of the proposed project is
requested. The approximate project funding level should be included. Applicants
will be informed as to whether to proceed
with a full application.
URL: http://tsa-usa.org
Deadline: Letters of Intent 10/3/2007
SOCIAL SCIENCES
33-10 Policy Relevant Research
(ACIE)
With funding from the U.S. Department
of State’s Program for the Study of Eastern Europe and the Independent States of
the Former Soviet Union, the American
Councils for International Education provides full support for graduate students,
faculty, and postdoctoral scholars to conduct policy-relevant research for three to
nine months in Belarus, Central Asia,
Russia, the South Caucasus, Ukraine, and
Moldova. Scholars in the social sciences
and humanities are eligible to apply for
the program. While a wide range of topics
receive support each year, all funded
research must contribute to a body of
knowledge enabling the U.S. to better
understand the region and formulate
effective policies within it.
URL: http://www.americancouncils.org
Deadline: 10/1/2007; 1/15/2008
33-11 Resident Scholar Fellowships
(SAR)
The School of American Research (SAR)
awards six Residents Scholar Fellowships
each year to scholars who have completed
their research and analysis and who need
time to think and write about topics
important to the understanding of humankind. Residents scholars may approach
their research from the perspective of
anthropology or from anthropologically
informed perspectives in such fields as
history, sociology, art, law, and philosophy. Both humanistically and scientifically oriented scholars are encouraged to
apply.
URL: http://www.sarweb.org/scholars/
scholars.htm
Deadline: 11/1/2007
STUDENTS
33-12 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship
Program (ED)
The purpose of the Jacob K. Javits (JKJ)
Fellowship Program is to award fellowships to eligible students of superior ability, selected on the basis of demonstrated
achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise, to undertake graduate
study in specific fields in the arts, humanities, and social sciences leading to a doctoral degree or to a master’s degree in
those fields in which the master’s degree
is the terminal highest degree awarded in
the selected field of study at accredited
institutions of higher education. CFDA# :
84.170A (FR 8/29/07)
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister
Deadline: 10/15/2007
33-13 Dissertation Fellowship (SF)
The Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to encourage a
new generation of scholars from a wide
range of disciplines and professional
fields to undertake research relevant to
the improvement of education. Although
the dissertation topic must concern education, graduate study may be in any academic discipline or professional field.
Candidates should be interested in pursuing further research in education once the
doctorate is attained.
URL: http://www.spencer.org
Deadline: 11/2/2007
33-14 Graduate Research Fellowship
Program (GRFP) (NSF)
The National Science Foundation aims to
ensure the vitality of the human resource
base of science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics in the United States and
to reinforce its diversity by offering
approximately 1,100 graduate fellowships
in this competition. The Graduate
Research Fellowship provides three years
of support for graduate study leading to
research-based master’s or doctoral
degrees and is intended for students who
are in the early stages of their graduate
study. The Graduate Research Fellowship
Program (GRFP) invests in graduate education for a cadre of diverse individuals
who demonstrate their potential to successfully complete graduate degree programs in disciplines relevant to the
mission of the National Science Foundation. NSF 07-576
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/
nsf07576/nsf07576.htm
Deadline: 11/1/2007 - 11/9/2007
R.W. Trewyn, Vice President for Research
Jim Guikema, Associate Vice President for
Research
Caron Boyce, Administrative Specialist
Preaward Section
Paul Lowe, Director
Anita Fahrny, Assistant Director
Kathy Tilley, Rich Doan, Carmen Garcia,
Candice Foster, Danielle Brunner, Rex Goff,
Dawn Caldwell, Sharon Zoeller
Funding Information Specialist & Editor
Beverly Page
Human Subjects, Animal Care & Use,
and Biosafety
Gerald P. Jaax, Associate Vice President,
Research Compliance
Ashley Rhodes, Compliance Monitor
Adassa Roe, Administrative Specialist
Congressional Relations
Sue Peterson, R.W. Trewyn
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